Thing 12:Do You Digg?

While I have seen Digg and Reddit before I had never done much with the sites.
For this "Thing" I decided to visit Digg and sign up for Newsvine, as I am an admitted wonk when it comes to news on politics and sports.
On Digg, I read a few of the posts on the front page, took a poll on who would win the election and learned that "Man likes woman so much, he marries her!". It's in the Onion, it's got to be true!

Newsvine allows you to create an account (Plan on waiting a half hour for the confirmation e-mail):

The moment you register for your free Newsvine account, you are automatically given your own column and your own web address (e.g. "yourname.newsvine.com") where you can write articles, seed links, collect friends, and a host of other things. You're free to put anything you'd like in your column as long as it follows the Code of Honor (e.g. no hate speech, no advertising, etc.). Here's a sample column. The Newsvine community loves investigative reporting, opinion pieces, and just about everything else considered newsworthy and in good taste. Newsvine also sells advertising around all content on the site and returns 90% of the advertising revenue from your content right back to you (based on page views).

Cool, now I'm a reporter, and can take on the Star Tribune, and get paid!! Katherine Kersten will be shaking in her boots!

Now to come up with content...